Pollock's Last Snowflake

The question posed a voluptuous riddle.
Were these frenzied silhouettes
pole-dancing in black and blue
drooling the white slip
the sinewy gestures of Jackson Pollock's dribble?

The answer
coveted in a cracked glass
where crystalline veins erupt
like snowflakes
fatally flirting with windowpanes.

The anonymous physicist found
relying on African fractals
and reflexive theories of self-similarity
(like the infinite peculiarity of the figure 8)
that these calculated drips
were indeed, not authentic.

Unstrung Zero

of dots and lines
the elevated quibblings of
quantum physics

my makeup is no small matter

an elegant hunch
conceived 'round midnite
when Frank was under the stylus
and Dick on top of the matrix

I've got the world on a string

how to explain
the droplets of dots that remain
when straight lines
are straightened
and snap

too much tampering
quiets the quivering

(which ironically)
(is where dimension lies)
(according to the JPL guys)
(in the instability)

that
dots have no depth
is a lie
Mr. Feynman

her atomized mess
has left deep stains

in a strikingly linear fashion

Einstein's Wife

the letters arrive almost daily = still crisp from their travels

{London + Vienna + Paris}

and she s/its every one open with a whetted kitchen knife not the pearl-handled letter-opener he gave her last September with her initials calligraphied "E.E." on its filigreed cusp

a tender script heavily inked = words thoughtfully chosen

tamed beasts of burden that carry the weight of his lust
for her = once his darling mistress
now his accommodating wife
and the unsecreted "unwanted" others

{Mrs. L + Mrs. M + Margarita} who multiply

{her 20-year-old daughter, his next step, maybe?}

the Mrs. knows E likes L's aggressive posturing
the lady of the house sees E succomb to M's docile compliance
his better half reads that E is smitten with Margarita's full pout and tight ass

still they are not not not her equal

and what of his infidelity, relatively speaking? these candid epistles are not confessions they are revelations for his chosen Magdalene weightless sacrifices she is willing to make to kiss the feet of genius and quiet him in her skirted lap

the knife however she does not return to the drawer when she is finished reading the letter finished folding it twice and tucking it gently into the aero-postaled envelope finished placing it in her high holiday hat box with the others

the knife
she slips
into the
pleated folds
of her
pocket fingering
its thin
edge welcoming
the cut
(gracious hostess
that she
is) which
reassures her
that she
still bleeds

La Bonita Candidas

                                                  Candidas should be

                                         the name of a "brown-eyed girl"

                                                     not yeasty fungi

Drosophila Melanogaster Disaster/2

fruit fly puNNett [squares]


   tic


        tac


             toeing


                         XgenotypesY


                                   gives berth to (Mothras)



%   and demonstrously perFect Fenotypes   %

r.pn.zEL v.06

much much is made of Galileo Galilei's brick and feather
but the gravitational effects of extended locks are

                                                 somethingdifferentaltogether


tress e s  s  s  s  s  s        l   o   n  g


y   a  w  n  i   n  g   commas   of       thoughtfully_conditioned


f 0 l l i c l e d     f0liage


too    t  h  i  c  k    


to run   F  t  I  N  h  G r  E o  R  u  S  gh 


                                )witchiswhathappenswhenyourrelockedinaroom(


brushed in waves


dis rupt  s   language


d   i  s  t  i  l  l  s breath


press | pause


when just the right length ___ as measured by Pope


in   just  the  right        l  i  g  h  t



                                               her


c  r  a  c  k  e  d  whip                      commanding attention


                         promises no safe landings